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All the latest news from the Arts Council

Funding, Organisations, Partnerships

Arts organisations encouraged to apply for funding from the National lottery Arts & Older People Programme

2nd September, 2024

A group of people outdoors holding a selection of instruments including a violin and guitars.

Artists

Artist of the Month, September 2024 - Clare Gallagher

2nd September, 2024

A young boy hidding indoors behind the leaf of a cheese plant.

Artists

Obituary: Tom Morgan, poet (1943 - 2024)

2nd September, 2024

What's On

What's on in the Arts

30th August, 2024

A boy touches his nose against an elephant's truck in a warm gesture of friendship.

Funding, Artists

Arts Council information session for Minority Ethnic Artists

28th August, 2024

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Organisations, Partnerships

The Shake, an exhibition reflecting on what unites rather than divides us, is now showing at The MAC, supported by Cultural Bridge and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

20th August, 2024

Male in a wheelchair wearing a white shirt and a male in a blue shirt both holding the same 3D mould that is hanging from the ceiling.

What's On

What's on in the Arts

15th August, 2024

Three people standing smiling at the camera with a copy of the events programme for the festival.

General, Funding, Artists, Organisations

Funding available to buy new instruments

8th August, 2024

A group of musicians play brass instruments.

Funding

Arts Council announces Annual Funding Programme awards for 2024-25

6th August, 2024

Young children pictured outside by the River Foyle on a bight day looking through a large hula hoop with staff from In Your Space Circus, one dressed as a pirate.